Modi Regime Using Cheap Tactics to Muzzle Kashmiris’ Voice

Fri Oct 06 2023
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SRINAGAR: The fascist Indian government led by Narendra Modi is resorting to cheap campaigns to silence the voice of the innocent people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) for their UN-acknowledged right to self-determination.

According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), in its latest wicked move, the Modi regime has banned the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), led by illegally detained senior Hurriyat leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah. The DFP has been supporting the settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiris and relevant UN resolutions ever since its commencement in 1998.

The DFP leadership, particularly Chairman Shabbir Ahmed Shah, has to face India’s fury for opposing its illegal occupation of the disputed land. He has spent half of his life in Indian jails, struggling for Kashmir cause, and is presently lodged in New Delhi’s Tihar jail.

Modi Regime Illegal Crackdown

The Modi government has already seized the headquarters of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Srinagar, besides banning the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Jamaat-e-Islami in the occupied territory. Almost the entire leadership of these representative organizations of the Kashmiri people has been put in jail by the BJP-led communal Indian government.

The APHC leaders and civil society activists, in their statements, while strongly denouncing the ban on the DFP, maintained that India’s brutal measures cannot subdue the Kashmiris’ resolve and they will continue their struggle till they achieve freedom from the Indian yoke. They urged the UN, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and European Union to stop India from banning the political parties in IIOJK striving for settlement of the Kashmir dispute.

The DFP, in a statement, maintained that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized disputed territory, and the Indian government has no locus standi whatsoever to ban an organization or declare it an unlawful association just for demanding a peaceful resolution of the lingering dispute.

APHC-AJK chapter Convener Mehmood Ahmed Saghar, in a statement in Islamabad, also strongly condemned the ban on DFP by the fascist Modi government.

On the other hand, at least 6 Indian soldiers, including three officers, were injured after an Indian Army Major opened fire and lobbed grenades at them at Neeli post in the Thanamandi area of Rajouri district in Jammu region. The security official opened fire on his colleagues during a shooting practice session and then took shelter in the armoury of the unit and lobbed grenades at his superiors, who moved near the building to persuade him to surrender. The tense situation lasted for nearly eight hours before the Major was captured.

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